"Greatest Moments (2)"
- April 16
Celebrating three decades of daytime's #1 television
game show again... It's time to come on down again for
$1 million! Let's get it on with Amy Webber, Willie
Johnson, Stephen Markle, and Phillip White, as they get
a chance to make their own greatest moment happen.
And it's through the doors
with Bob, so nothing big... yet. First up for bids: two
motorcycles.
Phillip |
Stephen |
Willie |
Amy |
$5200 |
$5800 |
$3600 |
$5801 |
Willie gets the bikes,
as they cost $5134. So close for Phillip, but it's
Willie who'll play 1/2 Off for $25,000!
Well, after Willie gets
all her love out of her system.
Okay. To 1/2 Off. First
pairing: a blender at $80, and a jump starter at $15.
She thinks the jump starter is half off... and it is!
She wins both prizes and we remove half the boxes.
Next pairing: a
convection oven at $120 and a radio light at $15. She
thinks the radio light is half off... and it is! Anotehr
two prizes, another four boxes gone...
Now to a toy car at $70
and an electric toothbrush at $9. She goes for the
toothbrush... and that leaves only boxes #2 and #12. She
goes for #12... and it's empty. #2 had the money.
Not a good start, but we
press on with Sheena Linholm and a sailboat
Phillip |
Stephen |
Sheena |
Amy |
$1400 |
$5001 |
$3200 |
$5000 |
Actual price: $4590.
Sheena sails over to center stage to play for... a
Cadillac XLR convertible! Her game is Lucky $even, and
she gets $7. First number is... 7. That's a $70,000-plus
car! Second number guess is 8... 7. Costs her a dollar.
Next up, 5... Right on the money! Next up, 6... Right on
again! So she can miss the next number five either way.
That's a nice car, by
the way! Okay,
enough stalling. Her guess is 5. Makes sense. The
number... 6! She gets $4 and a nice car to boot! It's
worth $77,566. If
you think Sheena had a high reaction, check out Melanie
from way back when! She wouldn't even let go of our
hero, Bob... Hard to top, but we'll try with Mae See!
And we'll try with a travel package of two sets of
luggage and two sets of cameras.
Phillip |
Stephen |
Mae |
Amy |
$3200 |
$1 |
$2500 |
$2750 |
Stephen thought everyone
was over, but it was $3020, thus giving Amy the nod and
the right to play Clock Game for a Comfort Spa and a
garden shed. If she gets both right, she wins $5000!
The spa is $899.... and
Amy gets it with 19 seconds left. The shed is $999...
and Amy gets it with 8 seconds left! And with that,
$5000!
And this guy who won
Golden Road a while back didn't get a chance to spin for
$1 million... But Willie, Amy, and Sheena will. It's the
Showcase Showdown, and Sheena, with her big win, spins
last... and best with $1.00! And you know what that
means. Cue the lights! Cue the serious music... It's
time... for... the MILLION DOLLAR SPIN! Reminder, it has
to go all the way round...
Passes the dollar
once... but never again. So no big money this half, but
maybe the second half will give us some oohs and aahs...
Second half starts up with
Calder Hendrickson. The baseball gets to bid on
snowboard and ski equipment.
Phillip |
Stephen |
Mae |
Calder |
$2100 |
$1400 |
$2000 |
$999 |
$2595 is the price, and
we get Phillip on stage to play for a Buick LeSabre! The
game is Cover Up, and the price is NOT $27,625. Phillip,
who calls this the greatest moment of his life - second
to his boy being born - starts out with $31,870... only
the 31 and the 0 are right. He tries $31,590 next...
Only the 9 is right. Now to $31,790... Wrong. It was
$31,290. Sorry, Phillip.
And we have for this
moment, Aleta sharing her hat (and a hoist) with Bob.
"She picked me up so high that I think I'm going to have
a nosebleed." Taking Phillip's place in Bidder's Row is
Jacqueline Hall, as she tries to win a fridge/freezer...
with a TV in the door!
Jacqueline |
Stephen |
Mae |
Calder |
$4500 |
$2900 |
$2800 |
$4501 |
$1800 |
$1600 |
$2300 |
$1 |
After an overbid, we
have a price of $2749 and a win for Mae, who at 76 is
the oldest contestant tonight. Tonight, she plays for a
Chevy Astro van at the Grocery Game. Today's groceries:
Citracal calcium, Beneful dog food, Coffeemate
half-and-half, VO5 hot oil, and Goya yellow rice. She
buys 2 calciums... and she's over by 94 cents.
From the last five
years, we have Michael, his mother's boy taking a risk
on the Temptation board... and he wants the button hit
now, dangit!
Bob praises the loyalty
of three or four generations of TPIR fans, while Jesse
Hernandez gets the call. Stephen gets one more chance
with an Elvis pinball. By the way, watch Elvis this May
on CBS =p
Jacqueline |
Stephen |
Jesse |
Calder |
$2100 |
$2500 |
$2400 |
$1495 |
Actual price... $4895!
And it's Stephen! He escapes! And not a moment too soon
as he tries for a pontoon party boat! Is it $22,481 or
$18,652? Stephen goes for the former... wrong.
And before the second
Showdown, we have... the most talked about moment in
Price is Right history. Yep... Yolanda Bowersley's
wardrobe malfunction.
Not one winner, but
Phillip makes up for it on the Wheel as he gets $1.00 as
well! After eliminating Stephen and Mae, it's time once
again... for the MILLION DOLLAR SPIN! It goes around
once.... and again, never again. So no millionaire this
episode, but still, some big Showcases next.
So far, Sheena is the
top winner with $83,156 in cash and prizes so far.
Runner up is Phillip with $3595. First Showcase: how
pricing games are dreamt up. Cliffhangers was a result
of a hiking trip in Switzerland, Clock Game was a result
of a 30-second shopping spree with a diamond watch, and
Master Key was a result of someone losing the keys to
the Lincoln Navigator. Sheena passes to Phillip, who
bids $61,000.
Second Showcase: how
people watch TPIR. Some people watch at home on an HDTV
(which is weird because it's not taped in HD), some
people tape it while on a Mediterranean cruise (which is
weird because if you have a satellite on the ship, you
can get TPIR), and some watch it in a TV in a motorhome
(which... isn't that weird at all). Sheena bids $75,000.
First to Sheena, whose
pack prices $100,528, a difference of about $25,000.
Phillip's package is $57,525. He's gone over, and Sheena
is the big winner tonight, this week, OF ALL TIME! Her
$183,684 in cash and prizes stands as the biggest win in
TPIR history!
And just like that, in a
show about the greatest moments in TPIR history, Sheena
gets to star in her own. Will we have any more? Find out
Friday, May 6! Until then, remember to help control the
pet population; have your pet spayed or neutered. Chico
saying g'night!
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